From: RAMMAN (r.greene@ieee.org)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 12:18:36 EDT
At 02:10 PM 6/18/2003 +0000, w0zv expounded:
>Thank you Forrest!
>
>--- In NikonCoolPix@yahoogroups.com, "Forrest Egan" <fegan@b...>
>You're correct. I was planning to force maximum aperture (for
>maximum flash range) but the flash sensor underexposes due to wedding
>whites reflecting so much light back. I tried several pictures last
>night and Program definitely worked better than Aperture. Hopefully
>the ambient lighting will be such that I can use a tripod to minimize
>the number of flash pictures...not good for candids however. BTW, my
>wife was a professional travel photojournalist for about 10 years and
>she said her F4's Program mode was hard to beat for candid
>shots...looks like the same holds true for the 995...especially for a
>newbie like me.
>
> > - Definitely get a spare battery! Yes, another spare...even if
>it's a
> > disposable. Even with an external flash, I used three batteries
>for that
> > wedding.
>
>Buying a spare Duracell 245/2CR5 today in addition to 2 fully charged
>EN-EL1's.
>
> > I typically use shoot at 2048x1536 at Fine resolution...this
>allows for
> > 8x10 prints.
>
>Since I'll try to limit flash pictures to conserve battery power,
>I'll at least try to optimize the ones I take.
>
> > If you would like to see some of the wedding shots, I can post
>them to my
> > web site.
>
>I'll take your word for it but thanks again for the very helpful
>suggestions!
>
>Bill
>
******************* TOWIT RICHARD DOTH ESPOSTULATE:
Bill,
I have one other suggestion. I have brought up this thread a number of
times in this group and please excuse me for repeating myself. Remember
that the 995 is a "computer" camera. Computers do crash and possibly screw
up your flash card. Also when you are transferring your pictures the
interface could destroy the info on the card. I had this happen with my old
950 (so far never with the 995). I recommend you purchase a number of
medium size flash cards as opposed to one or two large size cards and get a
flash card wallet to hold the cards. For me I keep all my cards to 64M (you
might use 128M). In something as important as this wedding it only happens
once (hopefully) and if you do have a computer mis-function you jeopardy is
only the card you are using at the time.
Regards,
Richard Greene
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